France, 1831. In a remote corner of Ardèche, the small village of Peyrebeille sees numerous travelers pass through. A family of rather greedy farmers decides it's time to get rich in a… peculiar way. They invest in an inn with a diabolical plan: rob traveling guests to accumulate wealth, without arousing police suspicion! But let's be honest, not everyone who enters this inn will leave alive. In The Bloody Inn, you take on the role of one of these less-than-hospitable innkeepers, a member of the murderous family. At the start of each round, cards are laid out to represent the guests in the inn. Each card has a cost, indicating how many cards you need to discard from your hand to perform an action with it. Some guests have an 'affinity' for certain actions, so those discarded cards return to your hand. The cards also show how much money, in francs, each guest possesses. A round has two phases, where players take one action each, in turn order. Possible actions include: bribing a guest to become your accomplice (taking the card from the inn to your hand), building an annex (moving a card from your hand to your player area, creating a spot to bury victims), killing a guest (moving a card from the inn to your player area, awaiting burial), burying a victim (placing an unburied victim card under an annex and taking their money), or laundering money (you can only hold a certain amount of cash; excess must be converted into 10F checks by the local notary). At the end of the round, if there are police in the inn, they conduct an investigation. If you have unburied victims, be prepared to pay 10F per victim to the gravedigger for a quick and discreet burial! Finally, each accomplice in your hand costs 1F. The game ends after the guest deck has been depleted for the second time. The player with the most francs wins!